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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent |
| Synonyms: | V-shaped, Y-shaped, akimbo, bifurcate, cornered, crooked, crossing, crotched, divaricate, forked, intersecting, jagged, oblique, sharp-cornered, skewed, slanted, staggered, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | angular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
acute-angled, aduncous, akimbo, angular, aquiline, arake, arcuate, bent, bifurcate, catawamptious, crinkled, crooked, cubical, cuneiform, dihedral, dovetailed, epinastic, equilateral, falcated, falciform, forked, furcated, geniculate, gleed, icosahedral, icositetrahedral, oblique-angled, obpyramidal, obtuse-angled, orthogonal, pentahedral, perpendicular, polygonal, repandous, retrorse, retroussé, rhombic, tetrahedral, zigzag
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| Main Entry: | crooked |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bent, angled |
| Synonyms: | agee, anfractuous, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, crippled, curved, curving, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, distorted, errant, gnarled, hooked, incurving, indirect, irregular, kinky, knurly, lopsided, meandering, misshapen, not straight, oblique, out of shape, rambling, roundabout, screwy, serpentine, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, twisted, twisting, uneven, warped, winding, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straight |
| Main Entry: | crosswise/crossways |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | across, at an angle |
| Synonyms: | angular, aslant, at right angles, athwart, awry, contrariwise, crisscross, cross, crossing, diagonally, from side to side, horizontally, longways, on the bias, over, perpendicular, sideways, thwart, transversal, transverse, transversely, traverse, vertically |
| Main Entry: | gaunt |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | skinny |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, attenuated, bare, bleak, bony, cadaverous, desolate, dismal, dreary, emaciated, forbidding, forlorn, grim, haggard, harsh, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, peaky, pinched, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skeletal, skeleton, skin and bones, spare, thin, wasted |
| Antonyms: | plump, thick, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | lanky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tall and thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, attenuated, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, extenuated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, lean, meager, rangy, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, slender, spare, spindling, spindly, stilt, stringy, twiggy, weedy |
| Antonyms: | squat |
| Main Entry: | lean |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bare, thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, anorexic, barren, beanpole, bony, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, haggard, inadequate, infertile, lank, lanky, meager, no fat, pitiful, poor, rangy, rawboned, scanty, scraggy, scrawny, shadow*, sinewy, skinny, slender, slim, spare, sparse, stick, stilt, stringy, svelte, sylphlike, twiggy, unfruitful, unproductive, wasted, wiry, wizened, worn |
| Notes: | lean means thin or without excess fat or containing little excess, while a lien is the right to take or sell another's property if an obligation is not met |
| Antonyms: | fat, plump |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | meager |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very thin |
| Synonyms: | angular, bare, beanpole, beanstalk, bony, broomstick, emaciated, gangling, gangly, gaunt, hungry, lacking, lank, lanky, lean, lithe, little, narrow, rattleboned, rawboned, scraggy, scrawny, skin and bones, skinny, slender, slim, spare, starved, stinted, stunted, tenuous, underfed, wanting, willowy, withered |
| Antonyms: | big, fat, full, large, wide |
| Main Entry: | rude |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, primitive |
| Synonyms: | angular, artless, barbarous, callow, coarse, formless, fresh, green, ignorant, inartistic, inelegant, inexperienced, inexpert, makeshift, primal, raw, rough, roughhewn, roughly made, rudimental, rudimentary, shapeless, simple, uncivilized, unconversant, uncultivated, unfashioned, unfinished, unformed, unhewn, unpolished, unprocessed, unrefined, wild |
| Antonyms: | polished, refined, sophisticated |
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